War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

Zhenla, pound son.

One month before this battle, Guan Jinpan and others learned of the Vietnamese's extermination order and wanted to launch an uprising in order to survive, but they were reported by a traitor.

The Vietnamese sent 20,000 troops. After a day of fighting with the Chenla rebel army, they fled Phnom Penh with their families.

Although the number of rebels was only 6,000, the number of fleeing troops was tens of thousands.

There is nothing we can do about this, because apart from those big-headed soldiers, every official has dozens or hundreds of people in his family.

As for wealthy families like the Guanjin family and the Pala family, there are thousands of people, not including domestic slaves.

Such a team would definitely not be able to run fast at first. The Vietnamese officers and soldiers chased them all the way, and captured countless treasures and baggage. The captured men could be exchanged for rewards, and the women could be sold as slaves. Slavery was still prevalent in Vietnam at this time. .

However, there is a saying that when the enemy is poor, do not pursue it. The rebels fled into a hilly area called "Dead Man's Mountain", where they had prepared food and weapons in advance, so the rebels began to use the terrain to ambush the pursuing Vietnamese army.

The rebels' weapons were inherently more advanced than those of the Vietnamese army, and the rainforest terrain was naturally suitable for ambushes. After several battles, they actually defeated the Vietnamese army, which was unfamiliar with the terrain.

At this time, the Vietnamese army is a large barracks. Within the Vietnamese army, whoever has more soldiers has the right to speak. The Vietnamese general who leads the troops naturally understands this truth, so he does not want to waste too much of his own strength.

So he sent the Khmer spies Ren Yu and Luo Jian who had surrendered to Vietnam to personally lead the troops to hunt down the rebels.

The two Khmer spies knew the rules of jungle warfare, so they set fire to the mountain. Guan Jinpan and others could only escape in embarrassment.

Afterwards, two Khmer spies led their own puppet troops to hunt down Guan Jinpan and others.

However, the Vietnamese did not actually trust Renyu and Luo Jian, and only gave them 4,000 men and some matchlock guns. The main weapons were still broadswords and spears.

(Archers actually need long-term training, and temporarily recruited armies rarely use this kind of thing. As for projectiles, project one in the jungle terrain to see if the opponent is shot to death by you first, or is killed by you first. Laughing to death.)

Although the Zhenla puppet army once fought with the Vietnamese and was defeated in one blow, now they are not merciless at all when killing the Zhenla people.

Guan Jinpan and others ran for their lives without any care. Parasu even abandoned his great-granddaughter in the mountains and left her to fend for herself. Of course, Parasu himself did not make it out of the Xiangshan Mountains alive in the end. .

In this way, the original team of nearly 30,000 people was reduced to less than 5,000 people when they escaped from the Xiangshan Mountains, leading to the previous scene.

The Zhenla puppet army who came after them first betrayed Zhenla and joined the Vietnamese. They chased Guan Jinpan and others all the way to Kampong Som. They were already red-blooded. With the mountains behind them, they had no choice but to Retreat.

Ren Yu and Luo Jian often compared themselves to Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng. They imagined that in the future, after Chenla became the territory of Dai Viet, they would also be officials of Dai Viet, and they would definitely show off their talents in Dai Viet.

As a result, the Zhenla puppet army led by Renyu and Luo Jian attacked the Skitarii's position. In their minds, the weapons of the Western Yi were just large firecrackers, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Everything went smoothly at first. Those Zhenla people wearing Xiyi military uniforms seemed to be frightened. However, at a distance of 150 meters, there was a sudden sound of artillery. A cannonball exploded directly in front of Renyu, and countless small steel balls shot out of it. He flew out and beat him into a sieve on the spot.

Seeing Renyu's tragic death, Luo Jian was not afraid of rejoicing and urged the soldiers forward. Then gunshots burst out and a burst of blood mist exploded from Luo Jian's shoulder and he fell to the ground.

The surrounding soldiers tried to help the commander up, but gunshots started again, and most of the soldiers who stepped forward were knocked to the ground.

Afterwards, the confused soldiers anxiously looked for their commander. Gunfire broke out again, and another group of soldiers fell down.

At this time, the Zhenla and puppet troops rushing at the front had been basically wiped out, and those behind had just arrived and didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, a group of Chenla people wearing Western-style military uniforms rushed out from the black smoke. Some of the leaderless Chenla puppet troops wanted to resist, while others wanted to surrender. They fought on their own and were quickly killed and defeated.

One-third of the dead Zhenla puppet troops were killed by artillery fire and bullets, and most of the rest were stabbed to death with bayonets, and some were trampled to death.

In fact, at the moment when the Skitarii rushed out of the black smoke and launched a bayonet charge, many Zhenla puppet troops were already ready to surrender.

However, these skitarii have been influenced by religious ideas for a long time and have become somewhat extreme. When facing pagans, even if the other party surrenders, they have no intention of stopping and will stab every living person twice first.

And the most incredible thing is that the surrendered Zhenla puppet troops seemed to be used to the killing of prisoners in front of them. They were completely indifferent and just knelt down and waited. The soldiers of the Skitarii stabbed their chests with bayonets without knowing. Resist.

Finally, an Austrian army officer stopped the massacre of the Skitarii.

This officer is not a saint, but the construction of Kampong Som really needs manpower.

At this time, Kampong Som was no longer a small fishing village, and all aspects of construction required labor.

In fact, these skitarii are also very strange. They never take prisoners when dealing with bandits, bandits, and gentry armed forces.

Why did the commander ask them to stop and take prisoners this time? However, these skitarii did not care about this, leaving some to collect the prisoners, while others continued to hunt down the fleeing Zhenla puppet troops.

In the end, except for a small number of Zhenla puppet troops, they fled into the mountains, and the wounded soldiers and prisoners were gathered together.

The captives of the Chenla puppet army and the wounded soldiers who were not seriously injured and could still work were asked to dig a big pit and throw their bodies into the pit.

After that, part of the Skitarii was responsible for escorting the prisoners back to the camp and taking away the wounded and dead. The remaining Skitarii gathered the wounded of the Zhenla and puppet troops together, and sent two priests to the wounded soldiers. We pray.

Those Chenla and puppet soldiers are very familiar with this. These foreign monks will most likely be like the monks in the temple, persuading them to put down their butcher knives and become Buddhas on the spot.

These Zhenla and puppet soldiers immediately became arrogant, and they were all wondering whether they would have to deal with these foreign monks before leaving. There were even some injured people yelling, "Treat me quickly! Why are you chanting a curse? If I die, I will curse you to the eighteenth level of hell."

However, after a simple prayer, the priests left, replaced by the somewhat ferocious-looking skitarii.

The soldiers of the Skitarii used bayonets to drive away the wounded of the Zhenla puppet army and forced them into a large pit filled with dead people. At this time, the wounded of the puppet army finally came to their senses and someone shouted.

"I can work, I'm not injured! I don't want to die."

However, the surrounding skitarii paid no attention to the shouts in the pit, and just poured the kerosene into the pit expressionlessly.

The fire burned for four hours, and while the fire was extinguished the Skitarii began to talk.

"Don't we usually just kill everyone? Why are we in so much trouble today?"

Another small leader of the Skitarii lit up a cigarette, took two puffs and said.

"There are not enough manpower, and the priests are opposed to letting the parishioners work as coolies, but someone has to do the work, so the chiefs want to capture some prisoners to work as coolies."

The little boss from before grabbed the cigarette and took two puffs and said.

"There are so many things to do, building a house is considered hard work? I used to not be able to have a full meal every day. Not only did I have to work for my own family every day, but I also had to work at my master's house. How fucking hypocritical!"

"Didn't you hear what the priests said? We are God's chosen people, and our enemies must be the abandoned people. Isn't it good to let those abandoned people do hard labor?"

"What voters? I spent the first half of my life working as a cow or a horse, eating pig food and living in a stable. Where did they go at that time?"

"But what about you now? Han Jiachang, you now live in the house of the former landlord and have three wives. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

"Satisfied? It's a joke. One day I will kill all these foreign monks, and it will be great to be the boss."

In the evening the flames finally extinguished, and the Skitarii soldiers sprinkled the bodies with white ash and then buried them with earth.

The priests said that lime powder can completely purify evil souls and prevent them from turning into evil spirits and continuing to harm the world. This is the word of the saints. The soldiers of the Skitarii firmly believe in this and do it very carefully.

The so-called saint naturally refers to Franz. The reason why Franz had such worries was naturally because he knew the severity of the epidemic. Of course, it was also because 26 people in Austria died in Chenla in two years, 20 of whom died from the epidemic. .

In fact, this was done to prevent incomplete burning and the spread of disease after the corpses decomposed.

The climate in Southeast Asia is hot and humid, making it extremely difficult to control an epidemic once it occurs.

Especially in this era, the means and drugs to control epidemics are very scarce, so the best prevention and treatment method is to prevent it from happening.

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